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| My affair with trucks began in 1970 at the age of 13. My dad got a job as a foreman of a farm and ranch in southern arizona. About a year later the farm acquired a 1965 w9 Kenworth, with a Cummins and a 4 X 4. I started driving this truck around the farm when I was 14, and drove it everywhere. I used it as personal transportation for most of a year, and then it started hauling fertilizer from Utah, so I shifted my sights onto a 4070 IH cabover with a detroit. The sound this thing made was amazing, and boy it would run, As soon as I turned 16 and got my license, I could start (illegally) pulling grain trailers to the elevator. I drove the IH and a White Freightliner, plus the Kenworth. The White and the IH had 9 or 10 speeds, I can't remember for sure. But I always loved the KW. I finally got my chauffuers license at 18, and started making night trips to Willcox, Az for fertilizer, pulling a set of doubles. We would pull up to a train car and drive a little front end loader into a box car and load our bottom dumps with fertilizer. We did it at night because the sheriffs were not out at night. More later.
Steve Hago lo que quiero (I do what I want!)
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